Thanks a lot,
Sabine

From: Eric Rescorla [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 25 April 2017 19:44
To: Randriamasy, Sabine (Nokia - FR/Nozay) 
<[email protected]>
Cc: The IESG <[email protected]>; [email protected]; 
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Eric Rescorla's Discuss on draft-ietf-alto-multi-cost-08: (with 
DISCUSS)

Thanks. I have removed my discuss.

-Ekr


On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Randriamasy, Sabine (Nokia - FR/Nozay) 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
 wrote:
Hello Eric,

Thanks a lot for your feedback and suggested text on privacy or security issues.
I have added it to section 7 "Privacy And Security Considerations" of the draft 
update that has
just been posted and can be found at 
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-alto-multi-cost-09 .

Best regards,
Sabine


>>-----Original Message-----
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>>Subject: Eric Rescorla's Discuss on draft-ietf-alto-multi-cost-08: (with
>>DISCUSS)
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>>DISCUSS:
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>>
>>This document states:
>>"This document does not introduce any privacy or security issues not
>>   already present in the ALTO protocol."
>>
>>This may be true, but it's not obvious it is, because when questions are asked
>>together, that's more of a privacy signature than independently.
>>So, suppose that application A asks for metric A and application B asks for
>>metric B and application C asks for A and B. If these applications are mixed
>>behind a CGN, with single queries then you don't know whether you have
>>some A clients and some B clients, but if you do multi-query, it's clear these
>>are C clients. This is a potentially serious issue if (for instance) 
>>Bittorrent
>>always asks for a very distinguished set of parameters, so an ALTO server
>>might use this to find Bittorrent clients.
>>
>>
>>

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